December 21, 2006

Harry Potter has gotten owned by cyber Squatters aka domain squatters. When the title of the new Harry Potter book was released on JK Rowling's website, cyber squatters started snapping up domain names based on the book's title, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. JK Rowling's agency, Christopher Little, has registered many variants of the domain name like harrypotterandthedeathlyhallows.com and deathlyhallows.com, but apparently they missed many variants. The publisher Scholastic Corp. (Nasdaq SCHL) announced the name in a press release.

You can see that Christopher Little only registered Deathly Hallows on 12/21/06 which is when the title was announced - some poor soul at the firm almost missed it.